Comeback Kid

The scouts

A child-as-reincarnated-cuckolded-husband is exactly the kind of premise that makes people nervous, and Robertson leans into that discomfort with such deadpan conviction that it becomes genuinely funny—this is subversion disguised as whimsy, and it shouldn't work but does.

The film positions itself at the intersection of British comedy tradition and magical realism, with formal restraint in the editing that lets the absurdist premise breathe; it's the kind of tonal control that separates craft from mere concept.

The decision to play the reincarnation reveal with a child's uncomplicated acceptance rather than shock or horror is the hinge the whole thing turns on—that single tonal choice elevates it from gimmick to something genuinely strange and moving.

Reviews

So simple, yet incredibly twisted. With an unravelling progression so uncertain that it entrances you into this bizarre situation along with them.

It sounds very confusing written down. But we could both imagine a very awkward and funny dinner scene so we knew this idea had legs!